We have arrived safely in New Zealand. English signs & brown sauce, wonderful!! We finished off Chile seeing the Otway Sound penguin colony where there are 6000 breeding pairs, There were lots of youngsters losing their baby feathers. They were gorgeous. The following day we got on a flight back to Santiago, which had 2 stops on the way. A 6 hour wait at Santiago before our 11 hour flight to Auckland. South America was brilliant. A quick summary, we have stayed the night in 44 different hostals, taken 16 flights, had to call on 3 doctors, 5 courses of antibiotics, broken 3 pairs of flip flops, broke our camera & binoculars, Chris alone has broken or lost 10 pairs of sun glasses, Miles had his watch stolen as well as our ipod & we have
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